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CURL-CVE-2016-9953
No affected components available
curl's TLS server certificate checks are flawed on Windows CE.
This vulnerability occurs in the verify certificate function when comparing a
wildcard certificate name (as returned by the Windows API function
CertGetNameString() to the hostname used to make the connection to the
server.
The pattern matching logic exhibits an out of bounds read. If the wildcard certificate name field is longer than the connection hostname, the wildcard comparison code performs an access out of bounds of the connection hostname heap based buffer. This issue could technically leak the contents of memory immediately preceding the connection hostname buffer, a crash or at worst happen to match against another piece of data.
Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.
No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.
The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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